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Cellist Beatriz Blanco and pianist Federico Bosco follow the success of their first Odradek album with Of Love and War, a sumptuous programme of music by Nadia Boulanger, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Webern, Hindemith and Fauré, featuring mezzo-soprano Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

Of Love and War, partly inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s novel Days and Nights of Love and War, draws parallels between the isolation and pent-up passions of wartime and the experiences of the current pandemic. Much of this repertoire was composed around the time of the First World War, but also embraces broader themes of beginnings and endings, night and day, love and loss. 

Nadia Boulanger is celebrated as a teacher of great composers, but was a composer in her own right; her Three Pieces occupy a similar soundworld to that of Debussy, whose Cello Sonata is at the heart of the programme, and Fauré, whose song Les berceaux we hear in an arrangement for cello and piano. There are works by Webern that show us ‘before and after’ his early lessons with Schoenberg: the Zwei Stücke für Cello und Klavier of 1899, written when Webern was only 16, and the Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 and Cello Sonata, both dating from 1914. The album discovers a softer side to Hindemith in his richly Romantic Three Pieces, Op. 8, and the whole recital is framed by glorious songs by Strauss and Debussy, performed by Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

15 - NADIA BOULANGER - 3 Pieces For Cello And Piano - I. Modere

Preludes in C Major, Op. 28 No. 1 'Reunion'

April

C. W. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30 Act II: Dance of the blessed spirits (feat. Charlotte Norholt)

Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book 2, L 123 - 12. Feux D'Artifice

Song of the Birds
El Cant dels Ocells

Traditional Catalan

Cello & Klavier
Pablo Casals

(Cello Part -8va)

Engraver
Finale 2014.5

Kontakt Sample
Emotional Cello Library
Galaxy Steinway Vintage D

El Cant dels Ocells  (Song Of Birds) Cello & Klavier - Traditional Catalan - Pablo Casals

Arizona Music Educators Association, Inc.
South Central Region Music Festival
Festival Choir, Orchestra, Band
Sahuaro High School
Feburary 20, 2016

Carmen Suite No. 1 Intermezzo (Georges Bizet)

Vocalise is a piano-violin arrangement of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 composed in 1912. It was originally for high voice and piano. The singer is meant to choose the vowel to be used as there are no words.

This is a live concert recording of my collaboration with Violinist, Robert Dukarm of Shostakovich’s Romance, played on a 9 foot Steinway at the Victoria Conservatory of Music's Alix Goolden Hall, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was recorded on May 1, 2010, while I was a student there. It is simple, yet pleasurable to play and listen to. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed performing it.

Vocalise Op.34 No.14 - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita No. 2 In D Minor, BWV 1004 - Allemanda
Paweł Miczka - baroque violin

Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book 2, L 123 - 12. Feux D'Artifice

Libor Novacek

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